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Experiences and Lessons Learned with the Development of a Source Code Search Engine

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Search and retrieval tools are an important mechanism to achieve software reuse. In this chapter, I present the experience at the RiSE Labs developing a search engine based on different techniques such as keywords, facets, Folksonomy and so on. Moreover, the lessons learned and some insights are also discussed.

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank all the members from the RiSE Tools project. The experiences and moments together during the development of the B.A.R.T tool were incredible. Moreover, I would like to express my gratitude to the Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems (C.E.S.A.R) where the development and contact with hundred of software engineers was crucial.

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de Almeida, E.S. (2013). Experiences and Lessons Learned with the Development of a Source Code Search Engine. In: Sim, S.E., Gallardo-Valencia, R.E. (eds) Finding Source Code on the Web for Remix and Reuse. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6596-6_7

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